Winners of the 2025 Ursa Major Awards

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The winners of the 2025 Ursa Major Awards are in! The announcements were made at Las Vegas Fur Con on Friday April 3, 2026.

The Streamer category is a new addition, and for 2025 a temporary Classic Anthro Videogame was created to acknowledge games made before 2001, before the Ursas existed.

Winners below the cut!

In each category, the runners-up are presented in descending numbers of votes. You can view the full voting statistics on the Ursas website; there were 969 voters. Our earlier article on Flayrah has links to most of the nominees' work.

Motion Picture:

Live-action or animated feature-length movies.

• Winner: Zootopia 2
• The Bad Guys 2
• Dog Man
• Good Boy
• Elio

Dramatic Short Work:

One-shots, advertisements or short videos.

• Winner: Lackadaisy: Last Call
• Bun Hunting 2.0: You can (not) be Baked
• Snow Bear
• Intermarché - Unloved
• Talon: An Animated Dinosaur Epic

Dramatic Series:

TV or YouTube series.

• Winner: The Amazing Digital Circus
• Helluva Boss
• Hazbin Hotel
• Belfort & Lupin
• The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball

Novel:

Written works of 40,000 words or more. Serialized novels qualify only for the year that the final chapter is published.

• Winner: Feral Flame
• Of Late Belonging
• Relinquished Realms
• Gravitational Pull
• The Blood of Life

Short Fiction:

Stories less than 40,000 words, poetry, and other short written works.

• Winner: Coming Ott
• The Young Man who Knew Where he was Going
• The Package
• Salisbury
• Against the Upright Ones
• Sanctum Scriptorium

General Literary Work:

Story collections, comic collections, graphic novels, non-fiction works, and serialized online stories.

• Winner: Sabrina Online: A Trio of Tales
• The Wideness of the World
• Tales from the Guild: Blood and Water
• Echoes
• Detective Alice

Non-Fiction Work:

• Winner: 85 Years of Con Cosplay: From Costume Masquerade to Fursuit Parade
• The Wealth Disparity in the Furry Fandom
• Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster
• Who runs your community? Five stories about predators with powerful friends in fandom
• They solved a horrific crime in their community

Graphic Story:

Includes comic books, and serialized online stories.

• Winner: A Tale of Tails
• Wrath of Con
• Projection Edge
• Incomplete Control
• Pixeas and Henry

Comic Strip:

Newspaper-style strips, including those with ongoing arcs.

• Winner: Foxes in Love
• Lauren Ipsum
• Nine To Nine
• Freefall
• Damian Foxx

Magazine:

Edited collections of creative and/or informational works by various people, professional or amateur, published in print or online in written, pictorial or audio-visual form.

• Winner: The Voice of Dog
• Dogpatch Press
• InFurNation
• Gaming Furever
• Indie Anthro

Published Illustration:

General artwork, may include illustrations for books, magazines, convention program books, cover art for such, T-shirts, coffee-table portfolios.

• Winner: Furry Fantasy Banner Set
• Steampunk Protogen Banner
• Adventure
• Avian Aerie: 2025
• Among the Tides
• Deep Sea Fox

Game:

Computer or console games, role-playing games, board games.

• Winner: Deltarune Chapters 3 and 4
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• Back to the Dawn
• Sunderfolk
• Shape of Dreams

Website:

Online collections of art, stories, and other creative and/or informational works. Includes galleries, story archives, directories, blogs, and personal sites.

• Winner: FurAffinity
• E621
• FurTrack
• The Belfry WebComics Index
• Fluffle

Fursuit:

Fursuiters and Fursuits galore!

• Winner: Gintan 3.0
• Echo the Bat
• Bubblegum
• Violet the Mule
• Bon Pansky

Music:

Musical works such as singles and albums.

• Winner: If I Were to Die
• Off the Leash
• First Step
• Ignition
• There's Still Tomorrow

Streamer:

New category for 2025! Furry streamers.

• Winner: BarleyTheBurr
• Skaifox
• Whiskeyding0
• BardicRJ
• Qweave
• Fluwufy

Classic Anthro Videogame:

One-time special category for 2025! Games released before 2001 that had a playable animal character.

• Winner: Spyro the Dragon (1998)

• Star Fox 64 (1997)
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992)
• Crash Bandicoot (1996)

• Sam & Max Hit the Road (1993)
• Banjo-Kazooie (1998)
• PaRappa the Rapper (1997)

• Tail Concerto (1998)
• Mappy (1983)
• Rocket Knight Adventures (1993)

Congrats to everyone! Don't forget you can contribute links to furry stuff you like in 2026 to the Recommended Anthropomorphics List!